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Being an AdSense publisher myself, accidental clicks were a real cause of worry for me. I’ve come across lots of publishers who lose their accounts due to this reason. Alex Bailey from Tech Reads shares a great Greasemonkey script which can help you prevent accidental clicks on your AdSense ads.

Before installing this script, you must have Firefox with Greasemonkey extension installed. Now, download and install this script. Once you’ve installed the script, visit your website which has AdSense ads in it. You’ll notice a popup box which asks for your AdSense Publishers Code (You can find your publisher code at the bottom of ‘My Account’ in your AdSense Account’s Dashboard, it looks something like pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). That’s it, happy earning.

All credits must go to Michael Hampton from Homeland Stupidity who originally developed this script. Earlier, I used to report all accidental clicks which occurred during theme designing, debugging via this page.



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  1. I wish I would have had that back in the day before I got kicked out for accidental clicks.

  2. I was using some other ways to block adsense ads from my own websites.

    This one seems lot easier. Thanks for sharing.

  3. [...] Being an AdSense publisher myself, accidental clicks were a real cause of worry for me. I’ve come across lots of publishers who lose their accounts due to this reason-TechBuzz [...]

  4. How typical is that? I’ve only just today spent a fair bit of time putting some coding on my site to ensure that adsense ads are not displayed for my login and then I see this really simple easy, simple method!

    Does this method, just stop them being displayed or does it prevent them from being requested from Google? - I’m just thinking about whether potential high earning ads would still be wasted?

  5. This can be done on the “adsense Injector” plugin for wordpress .. anyone using that ??

  6. I use to report all incidents as well, providing the exact details, thinking it would help them to track down the click and maybe deduct whatever needed to be deducted.

    Recently I reported a mistake click and received an email saying “thank you, but you do not have to report every time you click by mistake on an ad.

    I kind of felt like maybe I was being a pain, even though this was only my second time clicking and reporting the incident.

  7. I think this post comes a bit late. It seems the script was developed in 2005, but unfortunately haven’t seen this mentioned by bloggers till today.

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